Saturday, November 19, 2011

Even in Churches, OWS Can't Escape Police

Sharon Otterman, The New York Times News Service: "Several dozen Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were sleeping on the cushioned pews of a United Methodist church on the Upper West Side on Thursday morning when one of them spotted a man in plainclothes wandering through the sanctuary, apparently counting heads…. ‘It is disconcerting that they would actually enter the sanctuary,' said the Rev. James Karpen, known as Reverend K, senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, on West 86th Street. ‘Here we had offered hospitality and safety, which is our business as a church; it just felt invasive.'"
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